Hours after the White House released a letter written by US President Donald Trump to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un cancelling the planned nuclear summit next month, Trump called the developments "a setback for North Korea and a setback for the world." Trump said the current tough sanctions and 'maximum pressure campaign will continue' against North Korea. Speaking in the Roosevelt Room, said he is "waiting" to see if North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will again "engage in constructive dialogue." And he opened the door for diplomacy Thursday, saying the summit could be rescheduled. (AP)

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo began a hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday by reading a letter by President Donald Trump addressed to North Korea's Kim Jong Un, in which Trump informed Kim that he was canceling a planned June 12 summit. In the letter, Trump cited "tremendous anger and open hostility" in a recent statement from North Korea and said that he felt it was "inappropriate, at this time, to have this long-planned meeting." He added that the North Koreans talk about their nuclear capabilities, "but ours are so massive and powerful that I pray to God they will never have to be used." (AP)

US President Donald Trump is canceling the planned June 12 summit with North Korea's Kim Jong Un, citing the "tremendous anger and open hostility" in a recent statement from North Korea. Trump says in a letter to Kim released Thursday by the White House that based on the statement, he felt it was "inappropriate, at this time, to have this long-planned meeting." He says the North Koreans talk about their nuclear capabilities, "but ours are so massive and powerful that I pray to God they will never have to be used." (AP)

A commercial cargo ship arrived at the International Space Station with more than 7,000 pounds of supplies on Thursday, three days after launching from Wallops Island, Virginia. Virginia-based Orbital ATK shipped the goods in a Cygnus capsule.

China has asked Pakistan to find ways to move Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed to a West Asian country in response to mounting international pressure to act against him for his links with terror groups.

They arrived at Guantanamo Bay as young men, captured on the battlefields of Afghanistan and elsewhere early in America's war on terror, following the September 11, 2001 attacks. More than 15 years later, most of the inmates at the notorious US military prison have reached middle age.